• Thumbnail for Argonautica
    The Argonautica (Greek: Ἀργοναυτικά, romanized: Argonautika) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving...
    85 KB (8,567 words) - 14:00, 12 February 2024
  • The Orphic Argonautica or Argonautica Orphica (Greek: Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά) is a Greek epic poem dating from the 4th century CE. It is narrated in the first...
    4 KB (410 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
  • The Argonautica is the title of several epic poems which tell the story of Jason and the Argonauts: Argonautica, by Apollonius of Rhodes, a Greek epic...
    448 bytes (97 words) - 11:02, 26 May 2020
  • half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden...
    27 KB (3,623 words) - 12:46, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jason
    Jason (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and the tragedy Medea. In the modern world, Jason has emerged as a character...
    29 KB (3,376 words) - 06:16, 5 April 2024
  • during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic. The...
    12 KB (1,441 words) - 14:33, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Argonauts
    Argonauts (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.176 Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.367 Strabo. Geographica...
    53 KB (5,578 words) - 03:20, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medea
    Medea (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. As a daughter of King Aeëtes she is a mythical granddaughter of the...
    34 KB (4,396 words) - 17:49, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hypsipyle
    Hypsipyle (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    Flaccus, Argonautica 2.249–259. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265–280. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.280–303. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.306–310...
    50 KB (5,137 words) - 16:49, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erato
    playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic...
    9 KB (806 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alcinous
    Alcinous (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    2007-10-28. Conon, Narrations 3 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.990–1225 Orphic Argonautica, 1288 Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.25–26 Homer...
    6 KB (663 words) - 03:07, 27 December 2022
  • speedboat shaken loose from the Argonautica. The mercenaries take over and reveal they intend to rob the Argonautica's passengers and vault, before sinking...
    16 KB (1,832 words) - 10:26, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Calliope
    Orpheus; he came to Thebes and became a Theban." Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.2.23–34: "First then let us name Orpheus whom once Calliope bare, it...
    10 KB (1,076 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2024
  • Charybdis (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    October 2016. Homer, Odyssey 12.201–59 & 430–50 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.821–960 Gutenberg Project: The Aeneid E. F. Taylor translation (1907)...
    8 KB (904 words) - 13:37, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nymph
    Quaestiones Graecae 40 Apollodorus, 3.14.2 "Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, Book 2". "ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2". Diodorus Siculus, 5.57.7 Diodorus Siculus, 5.55.5...
    43 KB (1,968 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orphism (religion)
    the Neoplatonic Greek scholar Constantine Lascaris (who found the poem Argonautica Orphica) considered a Pythagorean Orpheus. Bertrand Russell (1947) noted:...
    35 KB (4,040 words) - 09:18, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aeëtes
    Aeëtes (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    Rhodius, Argonautica 3.243–244; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.19 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.241 Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.242...
    13 KB (1,157 words) - 18:53, 10 April 2024
  • Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.27.2. scholia in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4.1399. Scholiast on Euripides, Hippolytus 742 (Cavarezan, p. 288) [=...
    9 KB (307 words) - 21:57, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ares
    Ares (section Argonautica)
    is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In the Argonautica, the Golden Fleece hangs in a grove sacred to Ares, until its theft by...
    78 KB (7,508 words) - 02:29, 9 April 2024
  • Pausanias, 2.18.4. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.4 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 15; Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1122 citing Hesiod's Ehoiai Apollodorus...
    8 KB (783 words) - 01:10, 5 January 2024
  • Lycophron, 831; Greek Anthology 7.8 & 7.10; Orphic Argonautica 73 & 1369 Apollonius Rhodius. "The Argonautica". The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts...
    11 KB (674 words) - 02:38, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chiron
    Chiron (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    theoi.com. Retrieved 2022-07-08. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.554; Orphic Argonautica 375 ff. "APOLLODORUS, THE LIBRARY BOOK 3 - Theoi Classical...
    37 KB (4,311 words) - 17:37, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Circe
    Circe (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    Rhodius: Argonautica, Loeb Classical Library (2008), 4.654–661 Argonautica 3.309–313, translation by W. H. Race, Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica, Loeb Classical...
    95 KB (11,849 words) - 10:09, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Talos
    Talos (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    (1996), "The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica [3rd century BC] ... however, we have detailed images of the episode...
    13 KB (1,449 words) - 14:26, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rhea (mythology)
    the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified. In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, the fusion of Rhea and Phrygian Cybele is completed...
    42 KB (4,117 words) - 17:56, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sisyphus
    Archived 8 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1094 Pausanias, 2.4.3 Archived 13 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Apollodorus...
    22 KB (2,339 words) - 21:14, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cronus
    Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1235 citing Pherecydes Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2. 1231 ff Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 554 Callimachus...
    48 KB (5,279 words) - 12:36, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sea of Cronus
    was one of the seas traversed by the Argonauts in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica. In Ovid's Fasti the author mentions the ancient idea that Saturn (identified...
    2 KB (222 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2019
  • Thumbnail for Hippolyta
    Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica 2. 750 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC) Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica 2. 777 ff Apollonius Rhodius...
    12 KB (1,245 words) - 01:42, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leda (mythology)
    Rhodius, Argonautica, 201 Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheca 1. 7. 10 Alcman. Fragment 15 as cited in Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, 1.146...
    12 KB (848 words) - 00:58, 16 April 2024